cecilkorik

joined 2 years ago
[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 42 points 20 hours ago (10 children)

Screw them! We'll build our own peertube, with blackjack, and hookers

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

Most aggregation services are also aggravation services, so this really makes sense either way.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

The mature thing to do would be to tell them something like "I can see that you're trying and I appreciate that, but I don't know if I can like or respect you after what you did to my mom and my family. I'll let you know if that changes but I'm not ready to have you mother me, I can and will cook my own dinner for the foreseeable future." however be advised this could cause more hurt and lead to escalation because some people can't handle rejection even when it's honest and will either desperately seek approval anyway or reject you back. Given what you said about her age she may not even be emotionally mature herself.

Also you're under no obligation to be mature about it. You're allowed to be an asshole if you want. Cheaters and homewreckers and broken family creators are some of the worst things in the world to me. As someone who was raised in a broken home I really have little sympathy for the people who don't understand that having children is a commitment, not just personally but to their whole relationship. They're not just possessions you get custody of and get to drag around on your own personal life journey.

I'm not religious but I think this is one of the things that religion was trying to accomplish by making marriage such a sacred thing and divorce so restricted and children out of wedlock so disapproved of. The "nuclear" family was a secular version of the same principle. Yes, all that had unintended consequences too but if you are not prepared to raise children with a person you should not be having children with them. Yeah, "people change" but your commitments do not. That's why they're called commitments. If you're not going to follow through on your commitments you'd better have some really damn good reason to be causing such lasting damage to your child. It can be justified in some cases, but I think it's pretty rare that it actually is justified. Children deserve a stable and lasting family environment. I think that's a big part of why foster care is generally such a disastrous failure too. How do we fix this? I don't know, but I know it starts with the parents being responsible.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

State-sponsored violence, typically.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

!regina@lemmy.ca has a small community that needs more help to grow.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Authoritarianism is a threat.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most of the flags around here have already been swapped for "Fuck Trump".

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Finland is the best in the world at building icebreakers. Even the Russians, with the largest and most sophisticated icebreaker fleet in the world, get theirs built by Finland.

Sounds good to me. That said it would also be nice to have some backup capability to build these kind of ships in our own country, or at least ensure we have the ability to maintain and upgrade them. Maybe we could partner with Finland to add our nuclear technology to their icebreaker expertise and provide some actual value to the world.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The internet cannot download more RAM into your PC. (Sssh! Don't tell them! I don't want the supply to run out!)

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That means Bedrock unless you use the Geyser tool someone else mentioned to allow Bedrock to connect to Java but I have no experience with that and am not sure how reliably it would actually work as they are quite different versions of the game. I have no idea how it would handle mods that are not supported by the Bedrock clients for example.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Ground News is also Canadian, they're just an aggregator not a publisher but I still find it helpful.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Defend CBC to your family and friends and coworkers if you can. We're probably not really the target audience for misinformation, but they might be,. Their votes count and they can spread that misinformation too

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